Gravity’s so powerful, it’s letting you win this round just to remind you who’s really in charge when you drop your phone
Make gravity your bitch
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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spicystraw@lemmy.world 2 months ago
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Say that to gravity when you start even 5m above the ground.
exasperation@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Gravity ain’t shit. It’s not the falling that kills you, it’s the impact at the bottom. Which are electromagnetic forces.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Well the electromagnetic forces in your bones are no match for the accumulated energy of a few seconds of gravity.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The thing is, you need an entire planet to make falling hurt, and jumping is still easy. Meanwhile, if you have two tiny magnets they can pull on each other so strongly that you can never get them apart again.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Yeah, go ahead, how long can you keep it up? The earth can wait longer than you.
pornpornporn@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Just lost fate in my muscles
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There goes all our bragging about humanity’s physical superpower being endurance.
vane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now keep this hand raised for an hour. Who’s the bitch now ?
Comment105@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If it takes your an hour to wear me down, you’re weak. No matter how inexhaustible your power is.
vane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How about 10 minutes ? World record is 9.
exactlyhowlong.com/how-long-can-a-person-hold-the…pathief@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh don’t worry, it will be way less than an hour :P
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Lower strength, but far more endurance.
Zuriz@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Weak you say?.. See those merging black holes? Proceeds to casually dissapear 3 solar masses in less than a second… Yeah.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Which is still just a small fraction of the total mass of the black holes
If it were the electromagnetic force that pulled them together it would be so much more violent and send out deadly gamma rays
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 months ago
But that will never happen, because electromagnetic forces haven’t learned the power of friendship and co-operation. Gravity always works together, but the other fickle fundamental forces just can’t decide if they are pushing or pulling or whatever.
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I just overcame the gravitational pull of the entire planet with my dick.
Krelis_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If your dick overcomes the gravitational pull of the entire planet for more than four hours, seek medical attention
callyral@pawb.social 2 months ago
username checks out
dellish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Referring to your girlfriend that way is not very nice.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Your dick also overcame the gravitational pull of all other dicks.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You didn’t overcome it, you spend some energy that the earth will eventually get back.
Unless you leave earth, gravity will eventually win.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 months ago
They are launching objects to space accidentally, doing it intentionally cant be that hard
Evotech@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can’t even win then. Gravity isn’t just on earth. It’s a universal force.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you’re hot enough and place a mirror below you blackbody radiation should do a pretty good job at preventing that. If you’re not that hot you might need extra patience and without the mirror it might not be too effective.
Now that I think about it this might be considered as parts of oneself leaving earth though.
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This unlocked a song that has been buried in my mind for YEARS:
Now some of you may think that gravity is strong Cuz when you fall Off your bicycle It don’t take long Until you hit the earth And you say, “Dang that hurt!”
But if you think the force Is powerful You’re wrong
You see, gravity It’s weaker than weak!
And the reason why Is something many Scientists seek
They think about dimensions We live in just three But maybe there are others That are too small to see
It’s into these dimensions that gravity extends Which makes it seem weaker here on our end
And these dimensions are rolled up, curled so tight That they don’t affect you in your day-to-day life
But if you were as tiny as a graviton You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on And they’d find you…
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone, ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
mmddmm@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Oh, a song from the time superstrings were still cool?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions — if only we lived in one.
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Wasn’t this in Particle Fever? That doc is incredible.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“Gravity is weaker than weak” is such a strong line.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Did he just tough-talk the curvature of space-time?
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
thats just because the gravitational pull of your hand is weak shit.
Get more mass, massless nerd.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In a system where gravity is pulling on your hand, which is stronger, the force of the earth pulling in your hand, or the force of your hand pulling on the Earth?
Answer: it’s a trick question. In such a system, both sides feel the force equally
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
if we’re talking gravity physics, the earth, by basically every possible kilogram of mass imaginable to the human mind. But this goes without saying, because you stick to the earth, the earth doesn’t stick to you, so.
Of course technically, the force is applied to both objects, but considering the scale mismatch, one of these things is not like the other.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And now jump in the air and escape the gravitational pull.
12 kilometers straight up.
- 150 km.
Gravity not so weak now, huh?
SARGE@startrek.website 2 months ago
It’s still weak, just like humans are still slow.
At least compared to other animals.
But like gravity, we just keep going. And going. And going.
And when the animals we hunted collapsed from exhaustion, we just kept coming. And then took it all the way back we came.
Just like gravity.
We can try to keep going until we just can’t anymore, but gravity will just grab us and haul us back.
Compared to the other forces, gravity is a weak ass bitch.
Comtief@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Also not so weak if you find yourself at a height in the air.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months ago
And still it is powerful enough to completely close off parts of the universe from the rest. Truly fascinating.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Back issues are Gravity’s revenge.
don@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah but ain’t no motherfucker gonna soon be jumping over onto the moon with pure human leg power. Still gotta detonate a slowly exploding bomb under our asses to leave this rock-covered ball bearing.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 months ago
True, however… as you press into this planet, this planet presses into you.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 2 months ago
Overcome? The hand is clearly still under the effect of gravity as it is not flowing into the space. It just decelerates a tiny bit.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Supermassive Blackholes: “Gravity is weak, huh?”
nuko147@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah keep it up for 10 mins and we talking again.
Fleur_@hilariouschaos.com 2 months ago
Oh, should be no problem for you to leave earth then
Adkml@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Not to “Ermmm acshually” but you haven’t overcome the gravitational pull you’ve just counteracted it.
Overcoming it is significantlly more difficult.
The swirly line forms to the left.
Comment105@lemm.ee 2 months ago
“Not to um actually, but actually” should be the new um actually
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As a kid I used to have dreams that I could levitate by sort of straining my muscles upward and lifting myself away from the ground. It would be pretty cool to do that IRL.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Funny, I had a similar series of dreams as a kid like that. I just sort of learned to ‘walk upwards’ and levitate.
Phlimy@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Mine was that if I curled up into a ball I would float like a helium balloon lol.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
omg that was you? We could have played quidditch!
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I used to contemplate jumping in the air, then quickly using my foot to spring upward off of my other leg/foot, and repeating that until I’ve reached a desired elevation.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Pathetic. I can easily overcome the gravitational pull of all the milky way just with my pinkie.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nope. Gravity goes both ways. Actually it’s the curve of space time pushing you toward another mass. And you can only overcome because your mass is puny next to the earth.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Lifts cup of tea
PHEW I’m done for the day.
Ghost33313@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Lucky you. I struggle to fight gravity getting out of bed.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Same same, but I want my cuppa so…
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Then gravity reminds you who’s boss the next time e you trip over your own feet
nothx@hexbear.net 2 months ago
what does gravity even bench?
Sibshops@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Magnetic force is hilariously weak. Go outside and raise your hand. You just over came the magnetic force of the Entire Earth.
lil_tank@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Bro is made of iron
Sibshops@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m built different
huf@hexbear.net 2 months ago
turned to steel in a great magnetic field
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I read this in the voice of Charlie from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Zacryon@feddit.org 2 months ago
The face of the earth when I lift a finger: :o
rockerface@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Gravity is the weakest fundamental force, yes. At least, at relatively close distances. The advantage gravity has is that it never quite goes away, no matter how far you are.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
So it’s like humans? 🤔
We aren’t particularly strong, but we became apex predators because we never. Stop. Coming.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also, we, never, stop, cumming.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 2 months ago
Can you imagine being those antelope being hunted by early human ancestors -
“Ok, bob, we just bolted at 40mph for a minute or so, they’re not going to find us again.”
“Clarice, you said that the last 8 times and they still showed up! They’re unnatural! They just keep following and following us! Alex smashed his shin that last run, and I don’t know how many more times I can run myself! We’re doomed Clarice! Doomed!”
jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Exactly. Raise your hand. Great, you overcame gravity for a second. Keep your hand raised for a minute. 10 minutes. An hour. Fuck, gravity doesn’t stop. It’s exactly like us.
rooroo@feddit.org 2 months ago
about to make ourselves go away from bough.
tdawg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean yeah but also you reverse that square enough and it’s effectively zero
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
But never actually zero, unlike those other quitter “forces”
InappropriateEmote@hexbear.net 2 months ago
That’s true of all the fundamental forces, though. They all drop off over distance with inverse square laws. Like if you had two lone electrons in an otherwise empty universe, their electromagnetic repulsion would also persist indefinitely at 1/r^2 strength, just like gravity. The difference is that our universe has near-perfect charge neutrality at large scales.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Electromagnetic doesn’t go away either. It’s that damn negavite charge neutralizing the stuff.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Aren’t all forces subject to the inverse square law?
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 months ago
Dipoles are, effectively, not — so if you have a charged bit and another opposite charged bit, while an inverse relationship might exist between either one, the net effect is that it drops off much faster.
The thing with gravity is it tends to go one way, unlike, say, charge.
einlander@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sounds like a stalker.